The price of this comic made collectors’ spidey senses tingle.
A near-mint copy of “The Amazing Spider-Man #1” sold for more than $1.3 million at auction, breaking the record for the highest price the issue has ever achieved on the block.
The unrestored copy of the Marvel hero’s first eponymous series was purchased Thursday for a staggering bid of $1.38 million through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.
The record-breaking sale was part of a larger comics auction that included a 7.0 “Fine/Very Fine” grade copy of “Superman #1,” which sold for $2.3 million.
Industry experts said the Spidey comic’s 9.8 “Near Mint/In Mint Condition” rating from Certified Guaranty Company, the comic book industry standard, easily justifies the seven-figure price tag.
According to CGC, only one other copy is known to have the same rating and none has received a higher evaluation.
“For a buyer in today’s market, getting a copy of this edition in 9.8 could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” CGC president Matt Nelson told The Post, adding that a copy of the same edition in 9.6 Last year it sold for just over $520,000.
The comic has a rating of 9.8, the highest ever recorded for Spidey’s debut in the eponymous series, and sold for just 12 cents in 1963. Heritage Auctions
“This Spider-Man #1 literally represents the decades-long launch of his own title, so historically, this is a very important book in the Spider-Man universe.”
“The Amazing Spider-Man #1,” by artist Steve Ditko and writer Stan Lee, hit newsstands seven months after the world first met high school nerd Peter Parker, who fights crime as the friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid – in “Amazing Fantasy #15.”
The first eponymous Spidey series, which sold for just 12 cents in 1963, retells Parker’s origin story: how he got his superpowers and how a thief murdered his Uncle Ben while he was shooting webs.
The issue also introduces readers to villains, including the Chameleon, whom he faces during a crossover with Marvel’s Fantastic Four, and Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson.
The copy of “The Amazing Spider-Man” No. 1 is considered a “curator’s pedigree” book, meaning it was part of a coveted personal collection of well-preserved comics rumored to have previously belonged to a museum curator. . according to Heritage Auctions Vice President Barry Sandoval.
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